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Recent Examples of disingenuous
The letter’s tone was both-sides-y and scolding, earning immediate scorn—the pearl clutching about cancelation from some of the biggest names in media struck many as disingenuous.
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Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Anyone who wants to pretend otherwise is being disingenuous.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The situation continued to escalate, and King accused the defense attorney of being disingenuous.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Mayci and Mikayla rag on Jordan’s church voice and disingenuous crying.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Anyone who wants to pretend otherwise is being disingenuous.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The situation continued to escalate, and King accused the defense attorney of being disingenuous.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Mayci and Mikayla rag on Jordan’s church voice and disingenuous crying.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disingenuous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disingenuous
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Multiple points of validation will help combat dishonest applicants, DEED Deputy Commissioner Evan Rowe told lawmakers at the time.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
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Thai Diner Yes, Thai Diner is technically in NoLita, but leaving it out would feel even more dishonest.—
Molly Barstein,
Vogue,
18 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The book goes into the deceitful methods used to secure the interview, which was broadcast on 20 November 1995, and the interest in figuring out what happened that exists to this day.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
30 Nov. 2025
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Others agreed that her actions were thoughtful, not deceitful.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
12 Nov. 2025
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The search led her to a nearby house — and into a complicated situation involving several untruthful children and their parents.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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Others focussed less on the revelation that our chronically untruthful leader had failed to tell the truth about something, and more on the escalating hate speech about Somali immigrants in Minnesota that the President is now spewing forth on a regular basis.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
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Her recent fiction can seem more contrived.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Rarely do these conflicts feel contrived or exaggerated.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 Dec. 2025
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His fall played as tabloid morality tale, at once confirming secular suspicion about hypocritical Christians and Christian suspicions about the temptations of secular trappings.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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And now, with several countries withdrawing from global governance, Jin thinks those lecturing China on being responsible are being hypocritical.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
14 Dec. 2025
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While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
31 Dec. 2025
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The handsome pair of actors play sniper specialists from enemy countries who must each take a long shift on opposite sides of a massive trench where some unnatural monsters apparently lurk below.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2025
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Another season of The Traitors is here — which means a new group of devious celebrities has been chosen to wreak havoc in the castle.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Liongate just greenlit a sequel film based on the second book in Freida McFadden’s trilogy series, The Housemaid’s Secret, with Sydney Sweeney returning as the devious maid, Millie Calloway.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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Arriving in Recife during carnival, Armando takes a job at the city’s social registration archive while hiding out under the assumed name of Marcelo.—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
25 Nov. 2025
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Aerial Global Community applied with the Tennessee Secretary of State on March 31, 2022, to register Aerial Recovery as an assumed name.—
Evan Mealins,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Disingenuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disingenuous. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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